How to Use amortization in a Sentence

amortization

noun
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  • The plan hinged on a tax write-off known as amortization.
    — New York Times, 1 Apr. 2021
  • The subsidiary then claimed new tax deductions in Dublin for amortization on the drugs.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Min’s bill would have required the State Lands Commission to conduct an amortization study of the three oil and gas leases in state waters.
    — Phil Willonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2022
  • Leave out depreciation and amortization, and Asahi is paying around 15 times the midpoint of various estimates of the three brands’ Ebitda for the year ending in March.
    — Kevin Allison and Rob Cox, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2016
  • Products like negative amortization loans, which offered very low rates up front but then tacked that initial savings amount onto the loan itself, no longer exist.
    — Diana Olick, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2017
  • The End Polluter Welfare Act would end expensing and require an amortization period of seven years for the fossil sector.
    — Benjamin Zycher, National Review, 21 May 2021
  • That, say, bonds sold to rehab Soldier Field just two decades ago can be rolled into a new $1.2 billion debt issue — with an almost unheard-of 40-year amortization — without trashing the state’s credit rating.
    — David Greising, Chicago Tribune, 10 May 2024
  • Though clubs pay the vast majority of a transfer fee upfront — or in a handful of installments over a couple of years — the price of the acquisition is often spread over the duration of the player’s contract, a process known as amortization.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Airbnb recorded a loss before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization of $400 million for the three months ended in June, the people said.
    — Olivia Carville, Bloomberg.com, 19 Aug. 2020
  • Sometimes the total cost of the loan increased because borrowers' payments weren't even covering the interest on the loan (this is also known as negative amortization).
    — Anna Bahney, CNN, 10 June 2022
  • Sales would total $83 billion a year, with profits (before interest, taxes, and amortization) of around $3.7 billion.
    — Joseph N. Distefano, Philly.com, 20 Feb. 2018
  • The unit has about $1.3 billion in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, some of the people said.
    — Gillian Tan, Bloomberg.com, 21 July 2022
  • The loan amortization period is usually between 15 and 25 years.
    — Florian Monkam, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The company this week set a long-term target of maintaining a ratio of net debt to earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization of four times.
    — Kristin Broughton, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Teva’s net debt has risen to 4.56 times its earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization, the company said last week.
    — Fortune, 7 Aug. 2017
  • For research conducted outside the U.S., the amortization period is extended to 15 years.
    — Lourdes De Los Santos, miamiherald, 17 Mar. 2018
  • The buyer says the price is about four times Calkins’ profit from the newspapers over the last year, not counting financial costs (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization).
    — Joseph N. Distefano, Philly.com, 19 June 2017
  • At the high end of the price range, the company’s enterprise value would equal 33 times its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.
    — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2021
  • The company has promised to be profitable on an adjusted basis before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization by the end of next year.
    — Heather Somerville, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2020
  • Net debt had been forecast to end the year at $2.8 billion — twice earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.
    — Chris Hughes | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2019
  • ZoomInfo, which had a ratio of net debt to earnings before interest, depreciation, tax and amortization of 1.5 before the transaction, will see its leverage go up to more than three, Mr. Hyzer said.
    — Nina Trentmann, WSJ, 13 July 2021
  • But the seed, fertilizer, rent or mortgage payment, the diesel and time in tilling and planting and the amortization of hundreds of thousands of dollars invested in machinery and handling facilities will all have to be paid regardless.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 9 June 2019
  • The new company will have a leverage ratio of 3.9 at close and a target leverage ratio of 3.0 (net debt to earnings before taxes, interest, depreciation and amortization).
    — Glenn Peoples, Billboard, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The ban, however, has an amortization clause that gives the legal dispensaries five years to operate with a possible six-month extension to recoup their investments before shutting down.
    — Karen Brainard, Ramona Sentinel, 16 June 2017
  • Free cash flow is calculated by taking net income and adding back depreciation and other noncash charges, such as amortization.
    — Charles Rotblut, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • It’s taken me this long to seriously understand how amortization and interest works.
    — Scott Travis, Sun-Sentinel.com, 13 July 2017
  • Negative amortization happens when a repayment is too small to cover a loan's interest, resulting in the unpaid interest being added to the loan's principal.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Cash flow is calculated by taking net income and adding back depreciation and other noncash charges, such as amortization.
    — Charles Rotblut, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
  • On margins, the company has a 25% earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization margin, which is a strong profit margin but could be better.
    — Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 27 July 2024
  • This metric is derived by adding depreciation and amortization to operating income.
    — Vipul Bansal, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024

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